The Ocean Energy Forum was formed of 3 work streams for Environment & Consenting, Finance and Technology; each work stream had a Steering Committee and Chair. The three work streams allowed consensus building to take place at a topic-specific level thus enabling pragmatic solutions to issues to be developed.

The Forum and the Chairs were supported by a Secretariat, appointed April 2015, whose responsibility is the production and timely delivery of the Strategic Roadmap. The Strategic Roadmap was delivered to the European Commission on 08 November 2016.

The Secretariat is pleased to publish the Ocean Energy Forum Strategic Roadmap which was formally delivered to the European Commission on 08 November 2016. Publication of the Roadmap culminates the end of over two-years’ work by Ocean Energy Forum stakeholders.

The guidance focuses on certain steps of the EIA procedure and identifies ways of streamlining different environmental assessments in the context of joint and/or coordinated procedures (See Chapter 4). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2016:273:TOC

Last September the European Commission adopted a Communication entitled 'Towards an Integrated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan: accelerating the European Energy System Transformation' (https://setis.ec.europa.eu/system/files/Communication_SET-Plan_15_Sept_2015.pdf ).

The Forum is pleased to publish the report following the Edinburgh conference. The report details the outcomes of the breakout discussions for the draft Strategic Roadmap 6 x key recommendations and the University of Exeter’s input to the Roadmap Evidence-Base, with summaries in the main body of the report.